Features of N/X WCMS

• Rich Text Editor: N/X comes with a rich text editor for both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. With our editor you can easily create formatted texts with images and links.
• WYSIWYG Editor: With the rich text editor you can just edit texts but sometimes you want to edit a website like you can do it with professional tools? No problem, switch to the N/X WCMS Live Authoring and you can edit your page in WYSIWYG mode.
• Support for unlimited languages: Creating multilingual websites with N/X is quite easy. One can define several languages (variations) in the backend and can start translating the website with the translation module. One does not need to translate the whole page at once but can translate single pages only.
• Import articles from files: Your editors are writing articles with Word or OpenOffice? You want to import html-files or plain-text? With N/X you can easily import the most common office documents and gererate a website out of it.
• Pages are created out of templates: A developer defines templates, which an editor can use to create new pages. The editor himself can only create the pages but cannot modify the layout. There is an option also which allows you, that an editor cannot even create pages but can edit content only.
• Integrated article management: Especially for websites with a lot of news, N/X has an integrated article management. An editor just selects the news-channel and then clicks on the “Add-Article”-Button. The editor does not need to care about publishing, because the article is automatically shown or linked on every page you want to. The principle behint this is: Edit once, show everywehere.

Show the website as a tree: In order to make site management easier, N/X WCMS has a dynamic tree with the help of which a user can browse the website and find the page he wants to edit with ease. The user can also open a page for edit by using the Page-ID search function.

• Extensible Content-Library: You might know from other CMS that the content library is limited to just images. With N/X the content library is build out of all available content-types (e.g. images, flash-films, texts, links, pdf). If this is not enough, the system can be extended with content-plugins for more content-types.
• Group content: Sometimes it is necessary to group several contents to a dataset. For example if you have several authors in your system and want have a gallery with your authors. With N/X you can group Fields like name, christianname, email-address, vita, photograph… to a so called cluster. Each time you have a new author, you just create a new instance of this cluster. You can use those cluster-instances like usual content afterwards, this means especially you can reuse the data of the authors everywhere!
• Upload several images as zip-file: Whenever you need to import a lot of images to your CMS this can be quite pain. With N/X WCMS you can create a zip-file on your computer with all the images you want to upload and then upload the zip with the BulkImage-Plugin. Thats it. N/X WCMS automitically upacks the zip-file and adds the images to the content library. When you need to upload 100 pictures, this will save you about 1 hour of time!
• Import and Export: N/X allows import and export of templates, contents and so on. Share your work with other users of N/X or just copy your data from your test-system to your live-system if you have two N/X WCMS installed.

User Management:

• Create own users and groups: You can create a unlimited number of users and usergroups with N/X WCMS.
• Individual Roles: Users in N/X can have several roles. To each roles functions can be assigned which the users having this roles are allowed to do. So you can fine tune the N/X permission management to give each user exact the functions he needs to do his work.
• Limiting Access: You can assign a permission-record to each content or page you create within N/X. For example you can permit user1 from accessing a certain page while user 2 can access it. You can even set the permissions to user2 to editor and to user3 to quality engineer. The editor cannot publish the page but can write it. The quality engineer can also publish a page.

Business-Logic-Features:

• Versioning: Any changes you do to templates and content is not shown to the public until you explicitly launch the content. So you can make a preview of the edited page or content before you publish it.
• Logging and statistic analysis: N/X offers powerful logging and statistics. We track returning visitors, referers, top search engines and search keywords, click-paths and much more.
• Extensibility with Module-Plugins: If you need special functions like an catalogue or address-management, you can develop module-plugins. Writing data to the database is very very easy by using the N/X API.
• Extensibility with Text-Filters: Sometimes you want to filter out texts from your websites? For example you do not want to display email-addresses but want to replace it with images? This can be done with N/Xs text-filter frameworks.
• Rollout a site to several locations: When you create a homepage for one of your shops may want to make a copy and customize it for another shop. This can be done with N/X WCMS rollout feature. You can rollout one site to several other locations.

General Features:

• Render static html: You can render static html-pages with N/X. This is the best practice when you develop a web site with a lot of traffic. Of course you can switch between rendering on demand (dynamic) and html-rendering (static).
• Caches: Performance is an important factor of your website. N/X has a dynamic website cache which is refreshed every 15 minutes. So your website becomes much faster, even as fast as if you would work with static html.
• Integrated Online Help: N/X WCMS provides several kinds of help to make work easy for the users. N/X WCMS has an integrated help-system, an integrated help assistant and a lot of tooltips. This means when you hover a field with the mouse cursor, a hint is displayed what the field is for.
• Deplyoment: N/X has functions to automatically deploy templates and images with file-copy or ftp. So you can have several websevers which run individually. The only thing you must do at your own is to setup database replication.
• Search engine: N/X ships with a spider-based search engine, which can be integrated in your website.

Safety and Security:

• IP-Locking: Each user-session is optionally locked to a certain IP-Address. So no other user can take a valid session-id and login to the system.
• Type Check: Of course all the data posted through the webbrowser runs through a type check before it is used. This minimizes the risc of code intrusion or s.th. similar.
• Intrusion detection: N/X WCMS applies a filter to all varialbes which are send from a webbrowser to the system to find any kinds of known attacks and modifies this queries.
• Security Tracker: All security violations are logged in the database and can be browsed for analysis by the Administrator.

Backup: N/X allows to generate backups of your website and your database automatically. Backups can be stored on the webserver or can be send to another computer with ftp.
Developer APIs:

• N/X - Form API: The Form-API allows you to create forms like you can see in the backoffice very very easy. For creating an address-database with 6 different input-fields usually not more than 12 lines of source-code are necessary. After this all works fine with validaten, loading, saving and deleting records! The Form API is in general for customizing the backoffice of N/X
• CDS API: Powerful API for creating and customizing your own website.
• Image manipulation api: This API allows you to modify our image plugin or to write your own image plugin. You can do automatic resizing of images, cutting, text rendering and much more.
• ZIP api: With the help of the ZIP-API you can easily unpack any zip-files that were uploaded to your website.